It’s a famous baseball saying that every Dodgers fan should remember, or at least keep tucked away in the back of their mind:

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”

It is, of course, a saying that has long been attributed to the great Yogi Berra and it applies to just about every walk of life – including the current 72-46 National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers.

However, with only 44 games remaining in the 2023 regular season, and with the Dodgers currently holding a 9.5-game lead over the much-hated (by Dodgers fans) San Francisco Giants, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team would have to go into a tailspin of biblical proportions to blow this one.

But here’s the thing, and it’s a good thing. With their 6-2 pounding of the NL Central first-place Milwaukee Brewers in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 46,050 on Tuesday night for their ninth consecutive win, the Dodgers are now 21-8 since the All-Star break. That’s a remarkable 72.41% winning percentage; this on top of their current 61.02% season winning percentage.

It would be criminal not to mention the outstanding job that Dodgers right-hander Bobby Miller did in his 14th start of the season on Tuesday night. The 24-year-old Elk Grove Village, IL native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2020 out of the University of Louisville allowed only one run and only one hit with one walk and four strikeouts in his stellar 6.0 innings pitched. That one hit was a sharp single to center by always-dangerous Brewers left fielder Christian Yelich on Miller’s first pitch of the game, a 99.4-mph four seam fastball. Yelich would eventually come around to score that one run on a 4-6 force out off the bat of Brewers center fielder Sal Frelick. Remarkably, Miller then retired the next 18 batters he faced.

“It was a first-pitch ambush base hit Yelich and then the walk to Contreras, and then it seemed like after that he just reset,” Roberts said of Miller postgame. “I think that really proud, impressed the way he’s managing major league line-ups right now.”

“If I just command the ball, I think I can be a count-on guy,” Miller said, after recording his seventh win of the season. “I’m just trying to prove myself that I can be a count-on guy and the guy I want to be. So just go out there and compete every day, keep the head down, keep the tunnel vision and stay commanding the baseball.”

That, he did.

Without saying ‘It’s over,’ it’s hard not to say ‘It’s over.’

Play Ball!

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